Heroic armor of the Italian Renaissance : Filippo Negroli and his contemporaries

Accompanies an exhibition devoted to 16th-c. armor, focusing on the works signed by the Milanese Filippo Negroli and those made in his family's workshops. Catalogue includes an introductory essay by Pyhrr and Godoy; 'Milan and the arms industry in the 16th c.,' by Leydi; a Negroli family genealogy, history, and selection of archival documents, compiled and explicated by Leydi; followed by 68 expository catalogue entries (which include not only Milanese 16th-c. materials but historical precedents stretching back to the 6th c. B.C. and works of art that depict armor). ;